lørdag 30. april 2016

When you can design your own character in game, you get plenty of opportunities to reuse your cosplay with different looks. I have already posted a few photos of my bad ass wastelander with shaved head ;)

Even added a small tutorial on how to create the shaved hairstyle. The Retro pinupBut I have also made another style, which was more true to my very first character creation in Fallout 3, the cute platinum blonde curly hair. This character ended up loosing a foot though. That happens. But I loved the idea of adding a bandanna to the hair, to make it a bit more rebellious in real life.

onsdag 13. april 2016

And this is the hairdo I gave my in-game character, shaved sides with a little hair left at the temples.

After I posted a photo of the process on facebook it has gotten a lot of response, so I thought I would explain a little more in detail how to make this look. I don't have that many of my own photos, but will supplement with other online tutorials. Baldcap to the rescue. To create this look with a completely shaved side you need a baldcap. I bought mine from Kryolan. It comes in two sizes, and depending on your head size and amount of hair you need to hide choose the one for you.

Image from Kryolan.com

Prepping the baldcapYou should trim the baldcap to fit your face before applying the hair, this way it is all ready to be glued on when you are done. And be advised, it is a little difficult to put on a baldcap alone, if you can get a helper do so :) Bostoncostume.com has a small tutorial how to trim and apply a bald cap.

Ok, the baldcap is trimmed and you should now put it on a wig head or Styrofoam head. As I wanted hair on the top of my head I glued on a piece of a wig. You should not use glue that gets stiff when dry, personally I used pros aide for this part.

Image from pros-aide.com

I just added a cut out piece of a wig, but Arda sells lace squares, mostly used for beards. This will give you a much prettier hairline at once.

Image from arda-wigs.com

But if you don't want to buy a lace piece, you can lay down hair along the edge of you "normal" wig piece that you have glued on. You do this by adding more glue along the edge of the wig, wait until it has dried clear and add hair to the glued areas.

Please ignore that my Styrofoam head is way too small for the baldcap.

If you are going to put on the baldcap alone then you should add makeup to the back of the head before applying it, makes it easier to see the outcome. Stipple on brown makeup to create hair shades, add brown shades to create dirt, and a little blood if you are going to be battle damaged. Then it is time to put it on your head. You should watch this video by RayBrown00 on how to apply a baldcap, many good pints here.

Video by RayBrown00

My baldcap was already used, with not the best edges. So to smooth those out a bit more after gluing the cap on I used Nose and scar wax (from Ben Nye) along the edge and sealed that with pros aide glue. Then powder everything well.

Image from http://bennye.com/

Even with the edges smoothed out you need to fix the color difference. Your skin and latex absorbs makeup very differently, so I used a lot of foundation to get it as clean as possible first.

Then I added dirt and blood to take the focus away from the edges.

All done for this time

Another way to create a sidecut hairdo is to use needle felting and wool to a wig like I did with my Vi cosplay.

I also know that there's a technique called Flocking which is the process of depositing many small fiber particles (called flock) onto a surface. it makes it fuzzy :) But I don't know how to do this yet.

All about me:

Hello, I’m Christina also known as Chrix Design. I’m a software tester by day, costume maker by night. Most of my life I have been a little "know it all" and very creative. This evolved into me being a science nerd as a child as well as I sewed my own Barbie clothes. In the end I got a Master’s degree in Industrial design engineering. My childhood was also full of video games and my first prop came together mainly because I wanted a Portal Gun over my fireplace. I exploited every occasion to dress up and loved making more and more original costumes. It wasn't until 2011 I heard about cosplay, where had it been all my life! I got so many friends with the same passions for games, costumes, craft and books as me. After this I had no more spare time, there was always a costume to build a tutorial to write and new friends to meet. But I won’t say no to a round of Halo, an evening of board games or watching old Disney movies.
You can contact me at chrix.design.props@gmail.com or via my facebook page.